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What Do Islam Christianity And Judaism Have In Common

There are lots of people writing stuff about Islam online. However, I cannot stress enough that you simply should not believe all that you just read. There's a website which provides a great quantity of information on What is Islam and you simply need to follow the link for all the information which you need. The rest of the article I am certain you will still find interesting. Mohammed, the prophet and creator of Islam, was born into a polytheistic environment around 570 A.D. He belonged to the kin of Hashim and was of the tribes of Quraysh, the team who controlled the Kaaba stone in this time. Mohammed's father died sometime before his birth and his mother died when he was still very young. He was raised as an orphan among his relatives and practiced the polytheistic sorts of worship known among his people. While still a teenager, Mohammed became a camel driver and soon started touring with caravans from Egypt to Syria. At age 25, Mohammad came under the work of a wealthy widow in Mecca named Khadijah. Even though she was 15 years older than him, they married and she bore him two sons and four daughters.

It was during Mohammed's traveling together with the caravan which he came in contact together with the representatives of the many different religions and cultures of that particular time. He found that a number of them had a number of things in common: -- A belief in one God - - A perception within the fight between good and bad -- A scripture they considered to be the Word of God -- An eschatology teaching that the righteous would be rewarded along with the evil punished

Through the solitude of Mohammed's travelling, he began to meditate looking for the one true God. After around 15 years, he claimed to have had a vision in which the angel Gabriel informed him that he was supposed to be the prophet of Allah. Mohammed was then instructed to proclaim this message that there is no God but Allah. Based on Thomas M. Starkes, in his own novel Nowadays's World Religions, Mohammed received the exact words which were to later become the Koran, even though he could barely read or write. Acting as the prophet of Allah, Mohammed began to spread the message that he was given, but it was not well received. Mohammed was laughed at, and when he and his followers were praying to Allah, the residents of Mecca threw dirt on him and his followers, on one occasion. In 619 A.D., Mohammed lost his wife in passing. In 620 A.D., he and some of his own followers received a visit by men in town of Yathrib. This town was later renamed Medina, in honor of Mohammed. The men from Yathrib were largely Jews who believed that Mohammed will be the Messiah. Their assignment was to convince him to come to Yathrib and bring peace among its warring factions. Initially Mohammed refused, however in 622 A.D., while wars had broken out in Mecca, he and his followers went to Yathrib to create the peace while they had initially been requested to do. Among Muslims, this excursion to Yathrib became known as "the flight" or "Hijirah".

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